Red Hat at Supercomputing 2018: Bringing open source innovation from high performance computing to the enterprise

All supercomputers on the coveted Top500 list run on Linux, a scalable operating system that has matured over the years to run some of the most critical workloads and in many cases has displaced proprietary operating systems in the process. For the past two decades, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has served as the foundation for building software stacks for many supercomputers. We are looking to continue this trend with the next generation of systems that seek to break the exascale threshold.

SC18, a leading supercomputing conference, begins today. Red Hat hopes to hold conversations and share our insights on new supercomputers, including Summit and Sierra, nascent architectures, like Arm, and building more open computing environments that can further negate the need for proprietary and monolithic implementations. The updated Top500 list is an excellent example of how open technologies continue to proliferate in high performance computing (HPC) and highlights how the ongoing software optimization work performed on these systems can benefit their performance.

If you are attending SC18, we encourage you to stop by booth #3238 to see how Red Hat is accelerating the ongoing transition of HPC to the enterprise mainstream. At our booth, you will be able to discover inventive solutions and demonstrations, gain deeper understanding into the underlying technologies and get first hand insight into how Red Hat fuels innovation on an ongoing basis. Our expert will be there to speak with you about:

Just like the compute nodes have moved away from using proprietary designs, the storage infrastructure has gone through its own transition to a more scalable cost-efficient software-defined file, block and object storage that is independent of hardware. Red Hat delivers open source Ceph and Gluster technologies in their storage portfolio.

Red Hat advocates for open source technology, but it is not just about the software -- it is about the culture of systemic collaboration using open standards and continuous innovation. No one company can support that alone and that is why Red Hat relies on a wide landscape of partners to deliver tangible business benefits to our joint customers.

We also engage our customers directly to better understand specific needs in the context of their businesses. In the true spirit of open source collaboration in our booth at SC18 we are extending an opportunity to customers, partners as well as Red Haters to share their work with the rest of our ecosystem.

Mark your schedule to attend one of the many mini-theater sessions we will be hosting and please be sure to stay to the end as we will be raffling a prize at the end of each presentation. Here is the at-a-glance schedule:

Presentation Title

Speaker Name

Speaker Title

November 12, 2018

7:30-8:00 p.m.

Defiance of the appliance

Garrett Clark

Storage specialist, Red Hat

November 13, 2018

10:30-11:00 a.m.

Reimagining the storage hierarchy with Intel Optane SSDs

Andrey Kudryavtsev

SSD solution architect, Intel

11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

HPC containers: Democratizing HPC

CJ Newburn

HPC principal architect, Nvidia

12:30-1:00 p.m.

IBM and Red Hat collaboration on CORAL HPC solution

Bilge Acun

Research staff member, Data Centric Systems, IBM

1:30-2:00 p.m.

Turning storage challenges into competitive advantage

Terry L. Smith

Senior director, Advanced Solutions Group, Penguin Computing

2:30-3:00 p.m.

Deploying Marvell’s ThunderX2 at scale in the high-performance computing market